ACORN, along with unions, local Democratic party chapters and the Obama campaign, have been instrumental in growing the base of registered voters nationwide. New Democratic voter registrants, particularly young voters and minorities, have increased substantially over this last year, not coincidentally in the wake of the Obama candidacy. #THE LAST BASTION AWARD SERIES#Here today, after former Weatherman William Ayers and Joe the Plumber, we give you the next in the series of distractions and scapegoats: the dastardly ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), whose horrific crime against American democracy was to promote it by registering new minority and low-income voters. Secretary of State Mary Herrera is sponsoring a contest asking students to make a public service announcement encouraging people with disabilities to vote. Alicia Garcia, left, assists Elana Schwartz with video equipment from the Media Arts equipment cage. 'Mr.WHOEVER SAID “Patriotism is the last bastion of scoundrels” never took into account the last bastion’s lead-up men: 1) Saving your political ass in the face of utter defeat by blaming someone else to distract people from your screw ups, and 2) Using that same distraction to steal votes from your opponent. Governance and Oversight Capacities Account for Our Bank's Robust Management System - Philip Lynch, Independent Board Member at Ameriabank Interview with Francis Malige, EBRD Managing DirectorĪrmenians Commemorating 106th Anniversary of Genocideīiden Under Pressure to Recognize Armenian Genocide - KTLA 5 News But our authorities, which are prone to retreating very easily when it comes to issues of the kind, have declared the “seizure” of the Constitutional Court a supreme goal without distinguishing things in between to achieve that. In an interview with the Voice of America, the high-profile economist stated plainly that fight against corruption must not turn into a means of persecuting political opponents as that negatively affects the state administration system itself, and the process of fighting corruption. Also Daron Acemoglu, an economist who hailed the 2018 revolution - and on whom Nikol Pashinyan pinned gret hopes (waiting that he will arrive in Armenia to assist in the economic reforms) - addressed the topic yesterday. As early as yesterday, the law enforcers stormed Hrayr Tovmasyan’s apartment to conduct a search.Ĭonsidered from the perspective of a single chain of events, all these actions - targeting the CC chair and his close relatives (searches, questionings, indictments and arrests of godsons) in the past couple of months - suggest that this is a series of political persecutions, receiving evaluations from both the Venice Commission’s chairman and different international and local organizations and individuals. While some people take pride in the figures reflected in the Transparency International’s latest report - stating that Armenia has improved its corruption perception index by seven points, ranking the 77th on the list of 180 counties - our authorities are ″annihilating″ the political opponents under the pretext of fight against corruption, resorting to a blatantly manifested terror against the Constitutional Court and its chairman. Below is an excerpt from the paper’s editorial:
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